Bank holidays ALERT in September 2021: Banks will remain closed for 12 days this month - Check full list here

The month of September 2021  has started and it is important to know all private and public bank holidays before we plan a visit to these financial institutes. All private and government banks will remain closed for a total of 12 days in the month. In such a situation, if you have any important work related to the bank next week, you should plan your work keeping in mind the holidays.

The guidelines released by RBI mentions that the public sector, private sector, foreign banks, cooperative banks, and regional banks across the country will stay shut on the mentioned dates. RBI notified holidays for lenders under these categories—the Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday, Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday, and Banks’ Closing of Accounts.

Bank holidays differ from state to state but on the following days, all the banks remain shut.

Republic Day (January 26), Independence Day (August 15), and Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), Christmas Day (December 25). Banks also remain shut on festivals including Diwali, Christmas, Eid, Guru Nanak Jayanti, Good Friday.

Another important thing to take note of is that banks remain closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month, and on Sundays, as it has been made compulsory by the RBI.

As per the official list of holidays for lenders, banks can expect to see a total of seven (7) bank holidays in the month of September 2021 in categories such as state-wise leaves, religious events and festival celebrations. Other than these, there are also weekends to consider such as second and fourth Saturdays as well as Sundays, which will be holidays for banks across India. In total there are six weekend leaves. However, the final tally of holidays stands only at 12 days off as one of the holidays overlaps with the second Saturday.

Here is the complete list of bank holidays in September 2021:

1) September 5 – Sunday

2) September 8 – Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva - (Guwahati)

3) September 9 – Teej (Haritalika) – (Gangtok)

4) September 10 - Ganesh Chaturthi/Samvatsari (Chaturthi Paksha)/Vinayakar Chathurthi/Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata – (Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji)

5) September 11 – Second Saturday / Ganesh Chaturthi (2nd day) – (Panaji)

6) September 12 – Sunday

7) September 17 - Karma Puja – (Ranchi)

8) September 19 – Sunday

9) September 20 – Indrajatra – (Gangtok)

10) September 21 – Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day – (Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram)

11) September 25 – Fourth Saturday

12) September 26 – Sunday